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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · 14h

Link to the PDF ver. of the full white paper - www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

www.uottawa.ca

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · 14h

So excited to see it out and honored to be part of this group!! Rare opportunity to learn about the real-world entanglements between policy and AI's pasts and futures. My special gratitute to @apasek.bsky.social and Kelly Bronson for their guidance.

Anne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 19h

This summer I got a bunch of smart academics together to think about anti-extractive Canadian AI futures. Our white paper, which parses good and bad AI policy directions for the federal government, is out now!
www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

www.uottawa.ca

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8d

❤️🌴🌮❤️

Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 9d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 19d

I’m on the subway and these ads are as creepy and off putting as the product itself.

A Subway banner ad that reads “I’ll ride the subway with you.” Friend.com

You’re paying for company to surveil you!!!

Another banner ad on the subway that reads “I’ll never leave dirty dishes in the sink.” Friend.com.

Of course you won’t! You’re not a person nor are you my friend.

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Sep 15

Of course, so many works have already offered this argument

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Sep 15

Mediation dies and revives and is seemingly trapped in such impasse, precisely because we all long for the immediacy of that gratification

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Sep 10

Tech companies have snatched millions of YouTube videos to train their AI models. Search The Atlantic’s new AI Watchdog tool to see if yours have been used:

At Least 15 Million YouTube Videos Have Been Snatched by AI Companies

Creators have unknowingly fueled tools that may eventually make their work obsolete.

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Post-Zoom self care: reading Barad

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Digital Democracies Institute @digitaldemocracies.bsky.social · Aug 22

📆 Event Alert: Join in for an electric conversation with Dr. Susan Erikson, an SFU Distinguished Professor, who studies highly complex political economies that shape human health.
Link - investable.eventbrite.ca

#BookLaunch #Investable #SFUVancouver
@sfucmns.bsky.social

Author Meets Critics: Dr. Susan Erikson's Book Launch

Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Distinguished Professor, launches her book 'Investable! When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance'

investable.eventbrite.ca

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Jeffrey Yost @justcode.bsky.social · Aug 12

Copies of JUST CODE just arrived! Partnering w Con & teaming w 19 brilliant STS authors on the vital topic of code/codes & inequality was so special! Authors (full list ToC below) On bsky: @mysdick.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @dmulvin.bsky.social & blurb from @anitachan.bsky.social #histtech

Open box of books with two out showing front and back covers propped up on the balcony railing of my Minneapolis condo. Trees and sunshine are in the background. The book's full title is JUST CODE: Power, Inequality, & the Global Political Economy of IT, and it is in bold black lettering with pastel fading trails of the letters.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Jun 23

"A compelling case for treating this misguided financial product as a cultural artifact — one that reflects the values, assumptions, and contradictions of a particular global order."

@jacobinmag.bsky.social reviews Susan Erikson's "Investable!: When Pandemic Risk Meets Speculative Finance":

Making Plagues Investable

The World Bank’s pandemic bonds tried to turn public health crises into speculative opportunities.

jacobin.com

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Jun 10

Let history note: what's happening on the streets of LA is an extension of DOGE. Musk's guys illegally consolidated data from across government and cut a corrupt contract with Palantir to build an immigrant-hunting computer system. Presumably in use now.

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Jun 9

Fatal

Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.bsky.social · Jun 9

Durchleuchtet US-Software #Palantir bald ganz Deutschland?

"Bayerns #Polizei arbeitet bereits mit dem #Überwachungsprogramm Palantir. Nun öffnet der Bundesrat womöglich den Weg für einen deutschlandweiten Einsatz des US-Programms..."

#Faschismus-Enabling
www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Durchleuchtet US-Software Palantir bald ganz Deutschland?

Bayerns Polizei arbeitet bereits mit dem Überwachungsprogramm Palantir. Nun öffnet der Bundesrat womöglich den Weg für einen deutschlandweiten Einsatz des US-Programms zur Verbrechensbekämpfung. Hinte...

www.br.de

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Jun 9

This is sending me

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Jun 6

Been looking for this for soooo long 😭🥹

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · May 31

Making your paper logical is like riding a roller coaster and doing slow flow yoga at the same time... I died 🥲

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · May 17

I was there too. Finally in nature

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · May 13

Our uni is crazy…

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Apr 24

So we returned everything and ordered new ones. Somehow they were sent from the states and stuck there seemingly forever

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Mar 12

realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Mar 26

columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp

International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News

Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.

www.boston25news.com

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Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Mar 26

Sometimes it reads like a RPS fanfic even though it's technically not

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Suddenly I need to learn this, or, maybe I should cancel the whole trip at all

Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · Mar 24

Traveling into the U.S. has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. From the ace @wired.com security team, here's tangible guidance on minimizing the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

www.wired.com/2017/02/guid...

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Patrol accessing your data.

www.wired.com

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Mar 21

↑ transl.

Jiaqi Wen @jqwen.bsky.social · Mar 12

realized all our online purchases for the badminton team were just 12 shuttlecocks and 4 racket covers. WHAT. life is too short to double check the shopping cart

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sfucmns @sfucmns.bsky.social · Mar 3

We’re hiring!

Calling for applications for one full-time continuing teaching faculty appointment at the rank of Lecturer. Apply by April 30th to start in July 2025.

More details: www.sfu.ca/content/dam/...

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